disremembering
Letting memories fade
Disremembering is forgetting, but with a suggestion of willfulness or self-deception—not merely failing to recall but actively setting aside inconvenient memories.
The word appears in dialect and literary contexts: She accused him of disremembering his promises.
It can imply choosing not to remember rather than being unable to.
Pathological loss of recall
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
- forgetfulnessFailure to retain information
- senilityAge-related mental decline
cognitive decline · brain fog · memory gap · confusion · disorientation · absentmindedness · memory impairment · retrograde
Pathological loss of recall
- oblivionComplete erasure from memory
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- erasureAct of wiping away
- blanknessState of being empty
fade · vanish · elude · efface · repress · bury · slip · loss
Forcible prevention or concealment
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- erasureAct of wiping away
- whitewashingConcealing unpleasant facts
- revisionismReexamining established doctrine
selective memory · willful ignorance · burying · glossing over · blocking out · airbrushing · expunging · censoring
Willful lack of attention
- inattentionLack of focus
- omissionFailure to include
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
heedlessness · indifference · abandonment · apathy · unconcern · carelessness · remissness · dereliction
amnesia
Pathological loss of recall
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
- forgetfulnessFailure to retain information
senility · cognitive decline · brain fog · memory gap · confusion · disorientation · absentmindedness · memory impairment · retrograde · anterograde
amnesia
Pathological loss of recall
blankness · fade · vanish · elude · efface · repress · bury · slip · loss · escape
suppression
Forcible prevention or concealment
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- erasureAct of wiping away
- whitewashingConcealing unpleasant facts
revisionism · selective memory · willful ignorance · burying · glossing over · blocking out · airbrushing · expunging · censoring · omitting
disregard
Willful lack of attention
- inattentionLack of focus
- omissionFailure to include
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
negligence · heedlessness · indifference · abandonment · apathy · unconcern · carelessness · remissness · dereliction · slackness
disrememberingremembering
Retaining past information
recollecting · recalling · retaining · memorizing · keeping in mind
disrememberingcommemorating
Formally remembering something significant
reminiscing · memorializing · treasuring · reflecting on · reliving
remember, remembering, remembered, misremember, disremember, unremembered, forgetter, misremembering, unremembering